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A. VAN 'HOUTEN, Deo'd.

E. W. VANHOUTEN and C. VAN H0uTEN, Administrators.

SAFETY PIN.

Patented Feb. 6, 1883.

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ELEANOR w. vAN HoUTEN,oE NEWARK, AND ooRNEmUS VAN HOUTEN,

OF BELLEVILLE, NEW JERSEY,

HOUTEN, DECEASED.)

(ADMINISTRATORS OF ABRAM VAN SAFETY-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forrning part of Letters Patent N 0. 272,001, dated February 6, 1883,

Application filed July 27, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom t'tmag concern Be it known that ABRAM VAN HoU'rEN, deceased, late of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, represented in this application by ELEANOR W. VAN HOUTEN and CORNELIUS VAN HOUTEN, above-named administrators, did invent a new and useful Improvement in Safety-Pins, of which the following is a Specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in safety-pins made from one piece of wire, providing for locking under a flat or horizontal loop and from either side, with a suitable additional guard for the point of the pin and it I 5 consists in the devices substantially as hereinafter set forth.

' Figure 1 is a plan. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on a line ofm m on Fig. 2.

In my construction the shank A, united to the pin portion B by the coil 0, terminates at the opposite end in the lock and guard D E, so

arranged that the loop E, under which the pin looks, lies flat] or horizontal relatively to the shank, and may be approached by the pin in looking from either side.

In forming the lock and guardthe shank is I bent at F up and over onto itself for a short distance. The end Gris then bent back toward 0 F on a plane with itself,unaking a flat loop long enough to engage under it the point of the pin; and then beyond this point the end G is further bent under and around over, making a loop, H, around the part G. The part of this loop D above the part G forms a guard 5 to prevent any possibility of the point of the pin working through the loop E and pricking while in use. The end of the loop E is made with a notch, I, in which the pin will rest, held by its own elasticity when in use; or the sides are bent over for the purpose, as seen in Fig.

3; and the loop E in itself, between. its sides,

is a guard for the point of the pin, which is,

however, further protected by the guard D.

- I elailn-- The safety-pin made from one piece of wire,

having the loop or look E bent over inward from the end andlyingin a horizontal position, and the guard D, made from the wire forming one part of said look, bent under and around 0 the part G back of the look E, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

, ELEANOR W. VAN HOUTEN,

CORNELIUS VAN HOUTEN, Administrators of the estate of Abram Van Houten.

Witnesses:

H. FREEMAN NEEEUS, HORACE HARRIS. 

